Counter-Racism: A short conversation with a troll alien.

(Part fact, part fantasy)
Play this while you're reading - bit.ly/HeJCs

Fat and amateur extraordinaire Deswal gets up early in the morning and tip-toes to the family computer to check out the latest on hltv.org. He is careful not to make too much of noise lest his mom wakes up and whacks the shit out of him for indulging in social networking instead of preparing for his upcoming college interviews.

As Deswal logs on to hltv.org, one thread in particular catches his attention. He opens it and gasps in bewilderment and quickly summarizes the following out of the 664 comments-
100 comments linking to Troll pictures
200 comments relating to each other’s country
334 (and counting) death threats.

Amused and curious, Deswal decided to send a personal message to the topic creator (‘GayMer’) and ask him what counter measures will he be taking to avoid getting murdered if the people find out his real identity.

(Following are the messages that were exchanged during the conversation)

Me: What’s with the topic man? :) You do know that the ‘Justin Bieber wants your BACK’ punch-line won’t get you any concert-goers for his ‘BACK’DOOR tour :\Alien: gtfo Indian. You don’t have any rice fields to plough?Me: Well sir that will be ‘wheat fields’. ‘Rice fields’ is China. And what’s with the animosity?Alien: Run back to your ghetto nigga!!Me: Eh? The ghettos you are referring to are predominantly of 2 types. The first being the African-American ghettos which provide shelter to the economically handicapped and the second one being the Polish ghettos where many innocents lost their lives. So if I was you, I would really be careful with what I say and show a little more respect for the aforementioned. Alien: haha, you wanna cry? How can you afford to have a computer when you are so poor!Me: Zzz, wtf? Why do you think I’m poor?Alien: Slumdog Millionaire?Me: Die Danny Boyle :@Alien: Haha, truth hurts snake charmer?Me: WTF? Now you are calling me snake charmer. What’s wrong with you?Alien: haha, hyper nazi boy!Me: Hmmm. That is an extremely offensive thing to call someone from Germany especially because an entire country was generalized and held responsible for the mistakes of a few. We Indians have rampant corruption and scams which are again, the illegal greedy actions of a few and do not characterize our entire country.
Btw, what country are you from? Your flag says ‘world’.Alien: Go spread terror Paki.. lolMe: Listen you narrow minded f**k, get this straight – even you or I could be terrorists. It has nothing to do with country or religion. Being a terrorist is the result of systematic brainwashing, following misinterpreted goals and one’s own choice. Being a national from Pakistan or any other country has absolutely nothing to do with it. Now either you tell me which country you’re from or this conversation is over.Alien: Ok ok. Calm down. Having lotta fun with you :DMe: Hmmm.Alien: I’ve never told it to anyone. A bit awkward.Me: :O Your words match exactly to the ones that Justin Bieber will use when he acknowledges that he’s a closet homosexual. Hahaha
On a serious note, what’s awkward about it? Every country has their own share of problems and drawbacks. Doesn’t mean you need to feel awkward about it :)Alien: Well Ok! You seem kind of sensible so I’ll tell you. I’m from Alienation. Its a far away planet from Earth but we can use Earth’s internet technology. That’s is why you don’t see any flag on my profile. Ofcourse it also means that some users haven’t selected their countries too :) Nixon and Nomad know who is who so…Me: So Nixon and Nomad are aliens?Alien: No you dumbf**k. They just know that we exist and that we need to keep our identities a secret. Me: oh ok.
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Had your morning medication martian boy? Buahahahhahhahhaha lol xDAlien: :| this conversation is over. I was serious. Me: ok ok, I apologize. :D Why the f**k are you trolling here then?Alien: Well CS is very popular here at Alienation but we have many bad people here.Me: Bad people?Alien: Well yeah, I don’t know what you call them. They are a mix of people who talk bad about their own country or about someone else’s country to show they are the best and that others are not good. Then others will join in and insult along with one another or against each other. The whole environment turns negative. They don’t understand that they are all brothers and sisters amongst themselves :(.Me: eh weren’t you doing what all you just mentioned with me too? :)
And informally we call such people ‘assholes’ but a formal term would be ‘a racist troll’. Racist is too strong a word but there is none other to describe their spiteful comments. Hold up, you sound sensible too, so why are you trolling and why not back in Alienation?Alien: Well I was never a troll (learnt a new word). But with so many around me I eventually got influenced by them and became one. I don’t troll there cause of too much negativity. But here at hltv.org quite a number of you from different parts of the earth are still in your senses :) My bad on the trolling.Me: Hmmm. Its ok :D. Atleast you’re honest about yourself, unlike Bieber :| And you know trolling is not all bad imo. Its fun \m/ But racist trolling is a No No. Especially because you are referring to another person, not as an individual, but as a region and country. You’re basically calling every apple in the basket spoilt on account of a single bad one.
Racist trolling helps anyone none. It diminishes your respect in the eyes of your peers and it inadvertently forces the other person to think whether everyone from your country is the same which leads to him\her becoming a troll (a classic Catch-22).
That is why it is very necessary for us to keep a check on ourselves and troll only for fun and not to insult. Sorry for the lecture :D
Do you want to hear a saying?Alien: Sure :)Me: Every war is the result of an insult and every peace is the result of a show of respect.Alien: Nice :) Who said that?Me: Me xD hahahAlien: :| Not very funny.Me: Eh ok :\ Complete honesty can be bad too. If you need to criticize or disagree then you can do so with some tact and a little finesse so that your point gets across without the other person feeling insulted. Alien: Ah! Is that why you call everyone ‘sir’? Haha I read your posts on other threads.Me: Lol yeah. My point of calling someone sir is so that they understand that even though I might not agree with their view, I respect it because what may seem stupid or irrelevant to me, could have made complete sense to the one who expressed them.
Although his ass I’d kick anyday :@bit.ly/z89GWm
Lol. Just kidding Deven. Well done babe :)Alien: Hahah xD :D Me happy to have an Indian friend :)Me: Proud to be an Indian.
Scratch that…
Proud to be having friends from across the globe (and the universe :D) and proud to be an Earthling.
Racism->Wrong
Friends->Strong…forever strong \m/*SLAP*
Deswal’s mom’s aggressive hand gesture propelled him to change his perception from his ‘pride in…’ to the ‘benefits’ of higher education.

Do you know idealogy of Oslo Bombings? Or you just write because you heard about non-muslim-bombings?
I don't know what are you trying to prove because there are some acts of terrorism which were held by non-muslim.
I didn't say that ONLY one religion is responsible for acts of terror. I just said that RELIGION itself (mostly, muslim - can't deny it) is responsible for big amoung of them.

Oh, you are just mad, I see.
Don't know why are you talking about historical actions. Furthermore, dude, gimme example of act of terror of those (nazi/fasccism/communism).
Nonono, not the wars including them, but acts of terror directed to group of citizens to scare a lot of people?
Nazi and fascists had commited hard worldwide crime, but they were not terrorists.
Look, at least in wikipedia (lol), for key characteristics of terrorism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism#Definition

Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition.Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for a religious, political or, ideological goal; and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians)

Nazis towards the jews and communist government - Tian men square incident

until the muslims started doin it, nobody had any problem with violent acts which are intended to create fear btw.. the only country being attacked by muslims is india.. and that whole 9/11 is a hoax... please open ur eyes!

So, you are saying that Palestine organisations are terrorism organisation ? Your wrong, your really wrong. So do you expect of them to keep watching these bastard f****** israelians killing every palestinian ? (take that fucktards)

Israel has no other option than killing Palestinians, its self defence. The arab world denied to make peace with Israel and they want the muslims to rule over Jerusalem, the arabs want to wipe out the jews, thats unacceptable. How can Israel not kill Palestinians, if Palestinian mothers willingly murder their own children by making them suicide bombers?

now it is about muslims? dude, I can just see that you are ashamed enough to make muslims responsible for terrorism.
I don't want a religious fight, but can you please (and i say PLEASE) stop judging on muslims just because a hundreds of them are terrorists ?
For your info, there is 1 billion and 300 million muslim, so you can see the difference yourself..

There are 1.3 billion muslims in the world and majority of them are peaceful, only few are radicals, that's true. But there's only one Quran and it contains 109 verses which urges muslims to kill and destroy all non-muslims. I've read the Quran myself. The terrorists are just following those verses, thats it.

LoL, Quran doesn't urges a muslim to kill non-muslim, in fact it tells us to respect each religion and to let others with their buisness, but it allows to kill (and I don't want to use this term) non-muslims if they started to extinct muslims, here is an example: we are not allowed to kill any non-muslim from europe but we are allowed to kill israelians in palistine, we are allowed to kill americans in afghanistan. Did you read a translated version of Quran? the ranslator must be dumb..

one fact is that many ppl offend indians,but my point of view is that 70% of them are pretty good educated,almost semi/kind,can speak better english even from some americans,and they almost always backup points with arguments.

Gratitude for the kind words sir :) but I would really like you to read it from the point of someone who could have been from any nation and who is requesting (via a humorous blog) for people to stop direspecting countries and promote harmony :)

Personally, I dont find his so called music even slightly appealing and I find it extremely sad & annoying that this prepubescent kid has more views than all my favourite bands/musicians combined..

Its an endless chain really.. Earlier it used to be backstreet boys.. now its bieber.. in future there'll be some1 else.. Pop will always be more popular than other forms of music & guys in majority will always be hated by minority.. So, ultimately "Jealousy" is the answer you are looking for..

Europeans(specially British) make lots of fake documentaries about India. They always show slums, crime, rape, murder, etc in those documentaries. They would never show the new high rises in Bangalore, the IT parks, the highly sophisticated indigenously developed military hardware, the success story of the world's second largest economy, the secularism of our country, etc. This a propaganda to stop tourists from visiting our country so that our economy is harmed. But still the number of tourists in India keep increasing every year.

I dont think people plan so far ahead. I'm sure Danny Boyle mustn't have made SM to harm our tourism industry. He showed the people what would have enticed them the most to the theatres, a movie which would have shown his creative and direction abilities to the most.
Out there, there are only a few people who purposely harm a country's reputation and those people are 99% with a political motive.
And I'm sure only illiterate tourists fall for propoganda :D

Danny Boyle is a great director and made a great movie and that won't harm the tourism, because most of those Mumbai slums have now been replaced with skyscrapers!!
Anti-India propaganda still prevails in Europe and in the west. The British wanted to shoot the next James Bond movie in India and they wanted to do an action sequence on the roof of train full of passengers(sitting on the roof), but our government didn't give permission for the shoot as the rooftop travelling is an offence under IPC. But the British tried to portray that Indians travel only on rooftops.

I would say thats a rather cynical way of looking at it.. But, who doesnt love a nice conspiracy theory?

But imo that isnt the case.. they make documentaries about slums, crime etc. because those are the things that interest them.. they already have huge metro cities with big IT parks there.. why would they make a documentary about that? who would watch such documentaries in UK when they see that everyday in real life?

Whereas documentaries about our slums will generate plenty more interest & viewers there, dont you think? IMO, Its all about business really..

Ofc, as you say, it could all be a huge political propaganda or just plain business.. which is it, we can never be sure i guess..

There's no cynicism involved from India's side. Never. Lets forget about those stupid documentaries and talk about the Aryan Invasion Theory. It was a conspiracy theory devised by the British which said that Aryans came to India from outside around 1500 BC, and hence Sanskrit and the Rig Veda also came to India from outside. But this is the biggest lie in the history of mankind. No evidence has ever been found of any invasion. There has been no connection(genetic or linguistic or cultural) between Indians(Aryans) and any European race. According to the Rig Veda there is no homeland of Aryans outside India. The British developed this theory because they were/are racially biased and didn't want Indians to enjoy their well deserved pride of the Vedic literature and the mother of all languages - Sanskrit.
If Aryans came from outside then why don't any Europeans speak Sanskrit?

I'm absolutely with you on this one.. The fact that ppl are developing ridiculous theories to take credit for vedas, demonstrates just how much invaluable they are and makes me feel proud of being an indian..

I don't like muslims, that's it. Why should I be "polite" or "correct" with it?
I don't like them and I'm trying to avoid any contact with them. But why should it be awkward to me or whatever you call it?
Their religion has too little things in common with any european values, so I easily understand those who claim to be anti-muslims or whatever while I'm not this radical.

When it's just trolling - it's bad, I agree. When it's position - it is okay.

But nowadays so-called being polite is fucking complicated. In some european countries you would be called nazi\racist\whatever if you don't like some of other religions\races. But it's NO WAY to them (other rel\races) to be called racist\nazi.
The whole system just got complicated. The multiculturalism is the worst thing ever what was being created by the human. It is just making the difference even bigger and harder to solve.

You are not supposed to like everyone, it's normal that you don't like those who are not complimentary to you.

Not directly. Look if you have understanding for the people that are different, there is no way you get in conflict with them. Instead you can colaborate. Im not very good with english language, so maybe i dont use the right terms. :)

Nice thread. You have great insight bro. Its funny because that is the exact reason i dont claim my country because when i did have a flag, anytime i made a post disagreement with somebody, they would just bash on the fact that i was --------, and then list a bunch of stereotypes. they dont even respond to my post properly, just hate on my country. like, wtf?

:( Sometimes people get carried away too much to only respond every post\opinion with a negative reply. I genuinely hope those who read my blog (and the comments that follow) will give second thoughts to what they say and write about other countries :)

meh, a big pile of truisms in my opinion. It's not like your lectures will stop him from being a destructive kind of person on the internet, or any other troll for that matter. I bet he enjoyed every pseudo-intellectual message you were ready to waste your time on. Sir. :D